POMONA — The annual Band and Orchestra Festival of the Garey High School Music Department will be held March 27 in the school gymnasium.

The festival, with free admission, will run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and include special guest performances by the Sierra Wind Symphony of Citrus College and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Band.

Citrus’ Sierra Wind Symphony, under the direction of Bill Hoehne, will perform at noon.

It was formed in 2001 to provide Citrus instrumental musicians an opportunity to explore more sophisticated and challenging wind band music.

Each spring, it presents “Sounds, Shapes and Shades,” a musical and visual artistic synthesis incorporating the talents of Citrus dancers as well as stagecraft by the college’s lighting designer Dan Volonte.

The Marine Corps band will perform at 7 p.m. under the direction of Chief Warrent Officer Stephen B. Grove.

The band was formed in the late 1950s and is composed of 51 Marines attached to the Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms.

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